[Zope3-dev] Re: egg version numbers and zope releases

[Jim Fulton]

On May 31, 2007, at 3:59 AM, Chris Withers wrote:

> Benji York wrote:
>>> Even if developers remembered, it would be icky to have to spell  
>>> out   something like >=3.4 <=3.99 on everwhere.
>> Not as icky (IMHO) as having distribution names with embedded  
>> major version numbers.  I'm interested in other people's opinions  
>> here.
>
> I'm definitely in agreement here. Everytime I type BTreeFolder2 I  
> feel like someone's killing a kitten somewhere.
>
> It's a shame setuptools doesn't take care of this properly :-/
>
> (where my definition of properly is that "major releases" like 2.0,  
> 3.0 are assumed to be backwards incompatible such that 3.0 won't  
> satisfy a >=2.0)

That's not an unreasonable definition of "properly" given a very  
specific interpretation of version numbers.  Unfortunately, most  
people don't seem to follow that interpretation.  setuptools  
reasonably has to be less restrictive in it's interpretation of  
version numbers.

Jim

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